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> I've been playing around with Ghostscript, and it works very well.  The only
> problem I'm having is that it gets ill when I feed it Postscript that was
> generated on a mac.  Has anyone dealt with this problem?  Is there something
> I can do to Ghostscript to make this work?  Or, is there something I can
> do to the Postscript to make it Ghostscript-friendly?
>
> I'm using Ghostscript version 2.5.

I too had problems with PostScript generated by Mac applications running System
7.  The problem was that in the laserprep (or whatever they call it these
days), there was some eexec encoded stuff which would attempt to invoke an
operator called "cexec".  (Are you per chance seeing "/undefined in cexec"
error messages?)  I worked around this by defining cexec as follows

       /cexec /pop load def

and that fixed the problem.  I do not know what cexec was actually supposed to
do.  It was being used in a code path which would be executed depending upon
the contents of the product string in the statusdict.  I don't recall any of
the finer details and I'm on the road travelling right now and cannot look into
this further.

Dan